Hawaiian Eye

QUESTIONS: 1) "Hawaii," a new police drama set in the island state, premieres Monday, Aug. 30, on NBC. What network was the home of "Hawaii Five-O" during its 1968-80 run? 2) Before his adventures on "The Wild, Wild West," Robert Conrad played Detective Tom Lopaka on what glossy 1959-63 ABC series? 3) A famous TV doctor in the '60s, this actor picked up his stethoscope again in 1999 to play Hawaiian physician Daniel Kulani in the short-lived CBS series "Island Son." Can...

Eddie Hubbard was an easy-listening disc jockey at Chicago radio stations, including WIND and WGN, where for a time he co-hosted a show with the late Jack Brickhouse. Mr. Hubbard, 89, died Monday, March 26, at a Ft. Worth hospital of injuries from a March 19 crash in Grand Prairie, Texas, said his former daughter-in-law, Mary Workman. Mr. Hubbard moved to Texas in 1990 to work with ABC Radio Satellite Music Network and lived in Cedar Hill, Workman said. Charles Edward Hubbard grew up in Baltimore and got his start...

Robert J. Shaw, who wrote the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of "Dallas," which attracted the biggest television audience in history at the time, has died. He was 79. Mr. Shaw, born in Waukesha, Wis., and raised in the small Wisconsin town of Pewaukee, often boasted that he was continuously employed in the entertainment business for 53 years. He was a prodigious writer of radio serials, soap operas and television dramas. Mr. Shaw graduated from the University of Wisconsin, where...

QUESTIONS: 1) "Hawaii," a new police drama set in the island state, premieres Monday, Aug. 30, on NBC. What network was the home of "Hawaii Five-O" during its 1968-80 run? 2) Before his adventures on "The Wild, Wild West," Robert Conrad played Detective Tom Lopaka on what glossy 1959-63 ABC series? 3) A famous TV doctor in the '60s, this actor picked up his stethoscope again in 1999 to play Hawaiian physician Daniel Kulani in the short-lived CBS series "Island Son." Can...

Eddie Hubbard was an easy-listening disc jockey at Chicago radio stations, including WIND and WGN, where for a time he co-hosted a show with the late Jack Brickhouse. Mr. Hubbard, 89, died Monday, March 26, at a Ft. Worth hospital of injuries from a March 19 crash in Grand Prairie, Texas, said his former daughter-in-law, Mary Workman. Mr. Hubbard moved to Texas in 1990 to work with ABC Radio Satellite Music Network and lived in Cedar Hill, Workman said. Charles Edward Hubbard grew up in Baltimore and got his start...

Charlie Biddle, 76, a Philadelphia-born double bassist who became a jazz icon while living in Canada for the past 55 years; Feb. 4, in Montreal, after battling kidney cancer. I. Paul Brna, 77, Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s director of community affairs who led the retailer's efforts to reach out to minority, civic and school groups; he was a deacon of Chicago United, a business group formed in response to racial riots of the late 1960s to forge bonds between local...

- I`ve been trying to put three shows and their casts together: "Hawaiian Eye," "77 Sunset Strip" and one about a houseboat in Miami. The stars that come to mind are Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Roger Smith, Anthony Eisley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Edd Brynes. All were private eyes. Can you put them together?-D.P. Good reason you can`t tell them apart. The Warner Bros.-produced series on ABC in the early 1960s were interchangeable. In fact, the shows often used...

Robert J. Shaw, who wrote the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of "Dallas," which attracted the biggest television audience in history at the time, has died. He was 79. Mr. Shaw, born in Waukesha, Wis., and raised in the small Wisconsin town of Pewaukee, often boasted that he was continuously employed in the entertainment business for 53 years. He was a prodigious writer of radio serials, soap operas and television dramas. Mr. Shaw graduated from the University of Wisconsin, where...

Charlie Biddle, 76, a Philadelphia-born double bassist who became a jazz icon while living in Canada for the past 55 years; Feb. 4, in Montreal, after battling kidney cancer. I. Paul Brna, 77, Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s director of community affairs who led the retailer's efforts to reach out to minority, civic and school groups; he was a deacon of Chicago United, a business group formed in response to racial riots of the late 1960s to forge bonds between local...

- I`ve been trying to put three shows and their casts together: "Hawaiian Eye," "77 Sunset Strip" and one about a houseboat in Miami. The stars that come to mind are Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Roger Smith, Anthony Eisley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Edd Brynes. All were private eyes. Can you put them together?-D.P. Good reason you can`t tell them apart. The Warner Bros.-produced series on ABC in the early 1960s were interchangeable. In fact, the shows often used...

- With the new movie version of "The Wild Wild West" coming out, I was wondering if the original television show was Robert Conrad's first series. One preceded that. From 1959 to 1963, the rugged actor played private detective Tom Lopaka in ABC's "Hawaiian Eye," one of several similarly themed shows made around that time by Warner Bros. (The others were "77 Sunset Strip" and "Surfside Six.") In 1965, Conrad became government agent James T. West and enjoyed a four-season run...

Actor Grant Williams, who gained a considerable cult following after appearing as "The Incredible Shrinking Man" in 1957, died Sunday in Veterans Hospital. He was 54. Mr. Williams, a native of New York who studied under Lee Strasberg before coming to Hollywood, was being treated for toxemia, a condition that spreads toxic substances through the body, when he died, a Veterans Administation spokesman said. Mr. Williams, in a film career that began in 1956 with "Written on the Wind,"...

Paul Landres, an early sound-era film editor who turned to directing B movies in 1949 and became a prolific director of early television series, died. He was 89. He died of complications of cancer Wednesday in his home in Los Angeles. As a director of low-budget films in the 1950s and early '60s, his credits include "Go, Johnny, Go!" starring Chuck Berry, Richie Valens and Eddie Cochran; and two cult horror favorites, "The Vampire" and "The Return of Dracula." "They were two of the best independent...

One of TV's most durable actors appears again Tuesday, as CBS repeats the Robert Conrad drama "Sworn to Vengeance," the fact-based story of a police officer determined to solve the murders of three young people. Here's a quiz on some of Conrad's many other credits: QUESTIONS 1) On the series "The Wild Wild West," Conrad was government agent James West ... but who portrayed that character's resourceful sidekick, Artemus Gordon? 2) In the 1985 drama "Two...